Address-plate and index-tab therefor.



D. P. MONTAGUE & U. G. LEE. ADDRESS PLATE AND INDEX TAB THEREFOR.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.9,1914.

Patented Sept 8, 19141 Mac. 171% UNITED sTnrr srA Nr oEEIoE.

DWIGHT r. MoN'rAeu or CHATTANOOGA, TENiIEssEE, AND ULYSSES GRANT LEE, or CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNORS TO Mon I AsuE MAILING MACHINERY so, A con- 1 PORATION OF TENNESSEE.

s ecification of Letters Patent.

ADDRESS-PLATE AND INDEXTAB THEREFOR.

Patented Sept. 8, 1914.

Substitute for application filed October 3, 1911, Serial 1N0. 652,605 Renewed June 14, 1913, SeriaI No.

' 773,759. This application filed January 9, 1914. Serial No. 811,272.

' To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, DWIGHT P. MON- and ULYssEs GRANT LEE, residing at Chicago, Illinois, citizens of the United States,

- have invented certain new and useful Im-.

provements in Address-Plates and? Index- Tabs Therefor, of which the following 18 a specification.

Our invention relates to printing plates for use in addressing and mailingmachinery, and particularly to an index tab combined with the said plate. In applying this index tab,we modify the construction of the plate from thatheretofore employed, such,

,for instance, as in the American patent of Charles Owens,

One object of the present invention is to interfere with the handling of the plate, and is not liable to be damaged or bent,

i it to the plate that the tab will not become separated from the address plate accidentand for this purpose the index tab is sub.

939,739, of November 9, 1909, and U. G. Lee, #982,076, January 17,

mason, residing at Chattanooga, Tennessee,

I provide a tab that will not, in any way,

stantiallywholly within the limits of the plates shown in the said patents, not projecting beyond the contour of said plates.

ally, but may be readily withdrawn from the plate or connected with said-plate when desired.

Other objects of the invention will appear hereinafter, and the invention con:

sists in the features hereinafter particularly pointed out and claimed.

1 is a rear view of the plate or a view of that side opposite to that upon which the embossed letters are raised, the tab being shown in place; Fig. 2 is a cross sectional view of the plate on the line 2-2 of Fig; 1, looking from the left of said figure;

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional viewthrough one of the depressed and reinforced In the accompanying drawings, Figure edges of the plate with the tab in place therein;'Fig. 4 is a detail view of the tab separated from the plate; 5 is a perspective view of the corner of the address plate showing the turned or rolled edge with its recess, and with the cut tion and holding projection.

away por- In this drawing, 1 is the printing'plate I composed of metal adapted to be embossed to form the letters for printing the address.

This plate: has its margins depressed, or

in other words, located in a plane to one side of themainv portion of the plate, and these margins are bent back or rolled upon themselves as indicated at 1. The index tab,'as shown in Fig. 4 consists of a platepreferably of metal adapted to receive the "index marking on its face, the said plate having anextension 2, and this is adapted in size to fit 'withinthe space 3 formed by rolling or turning the edge of the margin I of the: plate back upon itself. The extension 2 of the index tab is suitably bent, as

shown in Fig. 4:, to secure a spring contact effect with the inner walls of the rolled or turned margin, of the plate. This margin is cut away at 4, as shown in Fig. 1, or

partly cut away, to provide a space in which the main portion of the index plate containingthe marking may lie There is left,

however, an intact portion of this margin up to the dotted line 5 in Fig. 1, and this furnishes a backing for the main part of the index tab which, with its main portion,

overlies this part of the flange or margin whi'ch is not entirely cut away. Atthe extreme end of [this hearing or backing portionof the margin a projection 6 is left on the plate, and when the index tab is seated in place its edge abuts against this projection, which thus acts to retain the index tab in position. The index tab, when being thrust into position, will slide' over this projection, and having arriyed at proper position, its edge will snap in rear of the projection and will thus be retained in place, it being understood that the index tab has a certain ing formed of metal. We'do DOt'WlSh to limit ourselves, however, in this respect, as the index tab may be held by friction alone.

It will be observed that the index tab is located'wholly within the original contour degree of resiliency, be

of the plate, its upper edgebeing in line with the edge of the margin of the plate, and its end edge lying within the plane of the end edge of the address plate. The rolled margin of the plate forms, in efi'ect, a pocket for receiving the shank or extension of the tab.

The term terminal as used by us is to distinguish the opening or mouth leading to the interior of the hollow rolled margin from the recess in the plate formed by the cutting away or omission of a part of the rolled edge.

We claim as our invention:

1. An address plate having a rolled marginal portion provided with a terminal'openmg axially in line with the recess in the margin, and a tab having a portion inserted in the terminal opening and extending longitudinally from the terminus of the rolled margin wlthin the recess formed by the said rolled margin, substantially as de-- scribed.

2. An address plate having a turned or rolled margin cut away at one po nt and resenting a terminal opening axially in me with the recess within the rolled margin and a tab located at the cut away portion of the margin and having a portion inserted in said terminal opening and extending lengthwise of and within the rolled margin, substantially as described.

3. In combination with an address plate having a rolled margin cut away at one corner of the plate presenting an opening, and an index tab held at saidcut away corner removablv by a portion thereof inserted in the said openlng and extending lengthwise of the plate, substantially as described.

4. In combination with an address plate having a rolled margin partly cut away presenting a termmal openmg axially in line 1 with the recess in the said margin, and a tab held by the rolled margin and being located wholly within the line of the outer edge of the plate extended, substantially as described.

p 5. In combination an address plate having.- a rolled margin cut away at one point presenting a terminal'opening axially in line with the recess withln said margin and a tab having a part inserted in the said terminal opening and extendin longitudinally of the recess in the margin, the other part of said tab occupying the cut away part and overlapping a portion of the plate which forms a backing therefor.

6. In combination with an address plate having a turned or rolled edge open at one end, a tab having a bent extension inserted in the end opening of the turned edge and extending lengthwise thereof, substantially as described.

7. In combination with an address plate having a rolled margin terminating short of the end of the plate, presenting an end opening, said plate having a projection at its end having a recess between it and the end of the rolled margin, an index tab having a-portion fitting in the opening of the rolled margin and with its main portion engaged by the projection, substantially as described.

8. In combination an address plate having a main portion to form an impression surface, and a margin offset to one side of the main part of the plate, said margin being turned upon itself providing a recess therein and cut away at one point presenting a terminal opening axially in line with the recess in the margin, and a tab occupying the space left by the cut away portion and having an extension entering the said recess in the turned margin by which the tab is held in place, substantially as described.

9. An address plate having a rolled margin provided with a terminal opening axially in lin with the recess in the margin and a tab having a portion inserted inthe terminal opening, said plate havinga bearing for the end of the tab to retain the same in place, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof,- I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

DWIGHT P. MONTAGUE.

Witnesses:

CHAS. OWENS, G. F.SMITH.

In testimony whereof, I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ULYSSES GRANT LEE. Witnesses:

ALAN R. FERGUSSEN, ADA LEE CAMPBELL. 

